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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by stephengillie on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:05AM (#15891680)
It's always bugged me there's no "metric time".

1 metric minute = 100 seconds = 1.667 Babylonian minutes

1 metric hour = 100 metric minutes = 166.7 Babylonian minutes = 2.78 Babylonian hours.

1 day = 8.61 metric hours = 1436 Babylonian minutes = 23.93 Babylonian hours.

Thoughts?

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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by todd8 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:16AM (#15892028)
I've always thought that if we are redefining time units a better solution might be 100000 metric seconds in a day (making them a bit shorter than the existing 86400 in a day) and otherwise the same relationships you've suggested:

1 metric minute = 100 metric seconds

1 metric hour = 100 metric minutes

1 day = 10 metric hours.

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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by theoh on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:22PM (#15893805)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
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Re:The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ millisec... by VMG on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:16AM (#15892029)
If rather switch to a base-12 number system
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